The Experience of Intermediate Housing in Algeria: Between Social And Spatial Arrangements (The Case Of Touggourt)

Abstract

This paper aims to assess the characteristics of intermediate housing and the factors influencing residents' perceptions in an approch to improve the quality of the built environment. The study is based on the compatibility between social practices and the spatial configuration of the habitat. The main criterion used to control this consensual mechanism is the degree of satisfaction of the users of the inhabited space, as the primary stakeholders in the habitat design process. The results of the survey show that the characteristics of the intermediate housing have a direct influence on the spatial configuration of the habitat. The quality of the spaces it provides contributes fully to reducing the transformation of the inhabited space. The study encourages architects and urban planners to formally design local intermediate housing with a view to the housing of the future.